Wear Instructions, 2018
I once read a John Berger quote which said, “could it be that red is the only colour that is continually asking for a body?” and haven’t stopped thinking about it since. Red is not the only color seeking a body, they all are. Because of my own obsession with color and the meanings I have attached to them, this body of interactive work examines the ways colors make us feel and act through the requirement of a gesture, eg: Hold Hands in This or Scream in This. These garments act as a vessel for experience, utilizing the memory that cloth can hold. Cloth remembers touch; knees rubbed raw and open, sleeves caked with sweat and dirt, tears from fingers pulling on and off each morning and night. These wearables encourage these actions to create tangible feelings, changing with each person’s wear either through the requirement of addition or through simple “wear and tear”.
Hold Hands In This, 2018
Interaction from opening night. Video by Brian Gulassa
Photographs by Zeke Bogusky and Brian Gulassa